Art Show Paris (2019)
“Once upon a time Jean Verame” – Galerie Sonia Monti
Château de la Barben (2013)
Verame’s Exquisite Skeletons are unique and, in their polychromy, echo the artist’s previous works. Drawing from a centuries-old tradition, alternately Epicurean and Christian, dramatic and playful, like card XIII of the Tarot of Marseille, they naturally recall the fragility of our condition and our equality in the face of death, our common destiny. A truth fully embraced because it has been surpassed, enhanced by the touches of humor that the artist strives to sprinkle here and there to better demystify death.
Tibesti (1989 )
Tibesti (1989)
A 24-minute film by Bernard Pradinaud and France 2 about Verame’s latest monumental painting project. It took five months in 50°C heat and 30 tons of paint to complete this project, on the Aouzou Strip, a few kilometers from the Libyan border.
Sinai (1980)
A 30-minute film about the first major project in a desert and mountainous area. For this project, entitled “Sinai Peace Junction,” Verame and his team worked at an altitude of 1,250 meters on the Hallawi plateau, in a place called Bir Nafoch, at the home of Sheikh Rachid Rachidi and his sons. Jérôme Pelvilain participated in this project from October 1980 to January 1981. He also accompanied Verame to Morocco, Chad, and Brittany, where four trap-setting trawlers were painted in 1992.
Bronzes in the Desert (1995)
The mineral universe of the deserts gave Verame the idea of transforming a stone (a worthless element) into artistic bronze, a way of transcending a shard of the universe, without formal reference, into a noble object. A thousand bronzes were cast at Airaindor-Valsuani in Chevreuse, exhibited once at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, then tumbled into the sands of the Sahara. These pieces, signed and numbered with the stamp of the cast and patinated in blue, are a gift not only for those who find them, but also for a man beyond time, both today and the day after tomorrow. This 52-minute film was produced by Palette Prod. and Canal +.
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